From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 18 11:06:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20828 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:06:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail3.microsoft.com (mail3.microsoft.com [131.107.3.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20823 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:06:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgasch@microsoft.com) Received: by mail3.microsoft.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:05:54 -0800 Message-ID: <61AC5C9A4B9CD11181A200805F57CD540700D93B@RED-MSG-44> From: Scott Gasch To: "'Kaleb S. KEITHLEY'" Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: de0 ethernet driver -- another puzzle Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:05:51 -0800 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >I bought a Linksys EtherPCI LAN Card II after checking the Handbook to >see if it was supported. > >The Handbook say this NIC is based on the DEC DC21xxx. > Hi Kaleb, I don't recall which Linksys card it was but I bought one of their 10/100 cards about 9 months ago. It was supposed to be DEC chip based -- the handbook said so and the Linksys site agreed. So when it arrived, I found it was based on some other, non-supported chipset. I do not know enough to write a driver and I didn't have time to learn so I called up Linksys and asked what was up with the chipset switch. They said that they had gotten the new chips cheaper and were switching production. They had the older dec chip cards around so I was able to swap mine. I don't know if this is what is up with your card or not, but it's worth a look. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message